Paul Trawick is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Socio-cultural Anthropology at Idaho State University. Trawick’s work focuses primarily on the management of water for irrigation, which as an anthropologist, he vews as a social rather than a technological problem. He is one of only a few anthropologists who have carried out comparative ethnographic research on successful irrigation systems in different parts of the world—mainly the Peruvian Andes and the Mediterranean coast of Spain–work that employed the same methods and research questions to reveal how such systems operate from the farmers’ point-of-view. His publications include The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons, and “The Moral Economy of Water: Equity and Antiquity in the Andean Commons,” American Anthropologist 103 (2).